This course is designed to introduce participants to the issues of energy in the 21st century – including food and fuels – which are inseparably linked – and will discuss energy production and utilization from the biology, engineering, economics, climate science, and social science perspectives.
This course covers the current...
This course explores the Circular Economy: how businesses can create value by reusing and recycling products, how designers can come up with amazingly clever solutions, and how individuals can contribute to make the Circular Economy happen. Participants learn to re-think the economic system, and act upon it. The course is...
Green economy is gaining momentum and attracting the attention of policy-makers, civil society stakeholders, and business agents from around the world. The number of countries developing and implementing green economy strategies and policies is growing. But do you know what green economy means in practice? Or what the policy approaches...
This online course, developed by UN CC:Learn and UNDP, with support from the Government of Sweden, aims to support policy makers in understanding how to optimize countries’ public expenditures by taking into account the projected climate change impacts.
The e-tutorial is divided into five sections:
- What is climate change?
- What...
Low emission development strategies (LEDS) are country-led and country-specific strategic plans to promote economic growth while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (in absolute and/or relative terms) over the long term.
This curriculum includes training on LEDS and the LEDS process. Specifically, it provides training on:
- organizing the LEDS process...
The ILO's International Training Centre (ITC) is committed to assisting countries in their social and economic development through learning and training. Through their green jobs website, they offer users information on upcoming courses on green jobs, organised by ITC, and provide its users with ongoing news updates regarding the broader...
The objective of this training course is to introduce participants to the topic of green growth, a policy focus for Asia and the Pacific that emphasizes ecologically sustainable economic progress to foster low-carbon, socially inclusive development. This course contains the following four modules:
- Sustainable consumption and production;
- Greening business;
- Sustainable...
The objective of the “Liveable cities” online training course is to build the capacity of participants in planning cities and their infrastructure, such as transport, housing, energy systems, water systems, parks, etc., in a way to promote social, economic and environmental benefits. In other words, participants learn how to prioritize...